The Nankin Township Historical Society

#416 of the Gundella Letters enters the realm of Creepersville. As such, I've crossed out the name and address of the Ann Arbor author. He requested a spell and made a phone call to the good witch hoping to woo Jane Fonda when she came to Detroit sometime in the early 1970s. From all indications she did not respond to his request in writing and hopefully contacted the police because this guy sounded either delusional or heavily medicated. Detroit Free Press , November 20, 1970 Based on the dates of letters 415 and 417 this would date the letter to November 20th or so of 1970 when Fonda spoke at the University of Detroit. The appearance included musical acts the Stooges, Alice Cooper and Damnation. Detroit Free Press , November 28, 1970

They often misspelled her name! Eastern Michigan University was fortunate enough to have renown sociologist Marcello Truzzi on their staff and when he died his papers were donated to the institution. Among those were many letters to Gundella the Witch (Truzzi had brought her to local and national prominence a few years beforehand and the two became good friends), both for her Witch Watch column in the Observer newspapers and personal correspondences asking for spells, that Truzzi was using for a study. Hundreds of letters, in fact. Fortunately for me I have a co-worker who goes to school there and was willing to grab me some photos of a few of the letters. Originally, I had wanted them scanned but seeing the photos that she sent makes me realize that they are better seen as is. Since I'm likely going to EMU today to gather some of the Gundella letters so as not to overburden my "colleague" (as the librarian referred to my co-worker in an e-mail; laughably since I'm...